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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
Vol. 10. No. 26.
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"GERTIE, THE DINOSAURUS"
(Box Office — One Reel) REVIE'WrED BY PETER MILNE
WINSOR McCAY'S conception of the far-famed dinosaurus, as pictured in this reel, is proof conclusive that he is one of the best of the present-day comic artists. It will be everyone's sincere wish after witnessing this comical animated cartoon of his creation that he do more work for motion pictures.
Take it from the titles in the picture, Mr. McCay did the job on a bet that he could draw a likeness of the prehistoric animal (we get the name twisted when attempting to pound it out on the typewriter), and make it perform in the manner he ordered.
His orders to the beast, which stands gaping on the screen, are funny, but Gertie's actions are funnier still. She walks out of her cave and bites ofif and swallows the top of a tree, resembling somewhat the manner in which a giant would consume a stalk of celery. Other of her actions are picking up an elephant and swinging him far into a lake and later drinking the lake dry.
McCay wins his bet in the finale, and George McManus is obliged to foot the dinner bill. We don't envy Mr. McCay his job, as the film tells us he had to draw ten thousand pictures, each one differing slightly from the other, but we appreciate his finished work, and everyone else will after seeing "Gertie."
"MRS. WIGGS" IS NEXT CALIFORNIA PRODUCTION
<<lWrRS. WIGGS of the Cabbage Patch," the California Motion IVl Picture Corporation's second big feature production, will be released on the World program on January 4. The screen story combines Alice Hegan Rice's two famous novels, "Mrs. Wiggs" and "Lovey Mary," which were successfully dramatized by Anne Crawford Flexner under the former title, and produced by Liebler & Co. in 1903 at the Savoy Theatre, New York City. The play has liad great vogue, passing asound the world, has been played in all English-speaking countries and translated into German.
Beatriz Alichelena, whose work in "Salomy Jane" has brought her to the front rank in filmdom with one stride, appears as "Lovey Mary," the good angel of the drama, while Blanche Chapman plays "Mrs. Wiggs."
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